Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge

[ south side of bridge ]

In Memoriam

Remember Pearl Harbor

Keep America Alert!

To Those

Who Made The Supreme Sacrifice

During The Attack On Pearl Harbor

07:55 AM, 7 December 1941

Dedicated By

The Leopoldville Memorial Association

And The Waterbury Veterans

Memorial Committee On December 7, 1998

[ emblem on the ...

The Peabody-Williams School

Petersburg, Virginia

Disrupted by the convulsions of the First World War, efforts to replace the increasingly inadequate Peabody School on Fillmore Street stretched out from 1913 until 1920, when the new Peabody-Williams School opened on Jones Street. Charles Robinson, who designed ...

Rapidan Camp

then & now

Blue indicates Roads, trails, and structures – 1930s

Red indicates Roads, trails and structures – now

Rapidan’s Original Structures

Five Tents (blue) – the first structure built; ruins still visible today

Trails End (blue) – guest cabin

Ishbel (blue) – guest cabin; named ...

The Birthplace of George McDuffie

From these humble and obscure Georgia pinelands, assisted by the plantation-owning South Carolina Calhouns, George McDuffie rose to become Congressman, Senator, and Governor of South Carolina.

McDuffie's political prominence involved him in a renowned political dispute when his loyalty to John ...

Earliest Known Public High School for African Americans in Virgi

Petersburg, Virginia

Petersburg established a public school system in 1868, two years before the state’s mandate. Colored Elementary School #1 was conducted in the old church building of the African Baptist Church, which stood to your left. The building had been ...

Oglethorpe Bench

On this spot one hundred and seventy three years ago James Oglethorpe the founder of the colony pitched his tent and here rested at the close of the day from which Georgia was settled.

Erected by the Georgia Society of ...

Coaches James G. Deegan and James J. Phelan

Universitas Sanctae Mariae Ad Montes Marylandia Fundata Ab Joanne DuBois

This boulder honors Coaches James G. Deegan and James J. Phelan for their combined century of dedicated service to Mount St. Mary's University. For over five decades these two men coached ...

Kopperl House

Built in 1896 at a cost of $4,200, this home was purchased the same year by sportswoman Loula Dale Kopperl (1861-1919). She and her husband Morris lived here prior to their divorce in 1912, and she continued to occupy the ...

Martinsville Speedway

H. Clay Earles (1913-1999) opened Martinsville Speedway in 1947 with seating for 750. The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) first raced here in 1948. Martinsville Speedway was one of eight tracks to host the inaugural 1949 season ...

Cyclorama Focal Point

July 3, 1863 - Third Day

"You will find hard work to convince yourself that you are not standing on the top of Cemetery Ridge in the very center of the position occupied by the troops of the Northern army on ...